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Rabbi Michael Broyde Responds

A Very Short Reply to the Many Substantive Comments on my Article: An Initial Analysis of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch’s Teshuva on the Beth Din of America’s Prenuptial Agreement by Rabbi Michael J....

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Footsteps and Chabad

Some formerly religious Jews at Mosihe House (The Jewish Week)One of the things I talk about often here is the fact that there are so many Jews that go ‘Off the Derech’ OTD.  This is when a religious...

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As the Orthodox Jewish Demographic Grows

Walking to shul in Monsey"How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwelling places, O Israel!"  This wonderful blessing about the Jewish people expressed in the Torah (Bamidbar 24:5) by Balaam is not...

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Look Who's Taking!

Shas Party head and Interior Minister, Arye Deri (JTA)One has to consider the source. Which in this case is Shas Party head, Aryeh Deri who now serves as Israel’s Interior Minister. He is a convicted...

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What Do They Really Want?

Image from Arutz ShevaAny residual respect I may have had for the Women of the Wall is now history. Even though I was in profound disagreement with them, and believed that much of their motivation was...

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Coming Full Circle? Not Entirely

Charedim in college - an increasing phenomenonCharedi society is the most dynamic society in Israel. So says Eitan Regev, an economist and senior researcher at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies...

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Grass Roots Changes in Tradition

Students - early in  Beis Yaakov's history (Lehrhaus)Let me begin with full disclosure. I’ve known Dr. Leslie Ginsparg Klein for a long time. She is brilliant young woman who is unafraid to tell the...

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More on Pew

The Chasidic Jews of Williamsburg. (Pew Forum)Orthodoxy is the future of Judaism. That is the only realistic conclusion that can be drawn from yet another analysis of the 2013 Pew Report , ‘A Portrait...

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Rabbi Asher Lopatin

R' Asher Lopatin - seen here with R' Y. H. Eichenstein from his days in ChicagoIf anyone wants to know how to be a Mentch, one need not look further than Rabbi Asher Lopatin. For those that are...

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Of Shells and Modesty

The late R'n Esther Jungreis - always fashionable yet modestI am a little uncomfortable talking about women’s fashions in the context of modesty. But that has never stopped me before. After reading a...

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Harvey and a Charedi Hero

Miriam and Adam BallinThe Jewish community of Houston has not been spared from Harvey’s wrath. According to the Jewish Week, 71% of Houston’s Jewish community has had serious water damage. Although the...

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The Catholic Church and the Jewish People

Rabbi Arie Folger meets with Pope FrancisFather Coughlin is dead. And so is the former antisemitic approach he had to the Jewish people sourced on the former theology of his Church. Father James...

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The Truth Is…

Trump rally (Cross Currrents)One of the reasons I am such a big fan of Rabbi Avi Shafran, is that, like me he is a seeker of Emes - Truth. Although we do not always arrive at the same conclusions about...

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Relying on Miracles to Sustain the Unsustainbable

Typical look of a KollelThe handwriting was on the wall. Now it is a sad  reality as demonstrated in Rafi Goldmeier’s  blog, Life in Israel. The idea of creating a society where men do not work – and...

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A Profile in Courage

Rabbi Menachem Bombach (Forward)Sometimes I wonder whether there is any sanity or intelligence at all in the more extreme ends of Orthodoxy. The uncivilized – almost primitive behavior of those...

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A Just Cause is No Excuse

Rabbi Shlomo Amar at the Kotel (Jerusalem Post)Reform Jews are my brothers. They are every bit as Jewish as I am. I love them all as I do the rest of Klal Yisroel. What I reject is their version of...

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Daas Torah? Or Daas Askanim?

Rabbi Peach Eliyahu Falk (Wikipeda)There is a lot of controversy about a concept called Daas Torah. A lot of it is based on misconceptions of what it really is. Because it is such an important feature...

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Education Denied

Orthodox Jewish families in Borough Park, Brooklyn (New York Times)One must accept the truth no matter who says it. And yet the truth is often ignored or even lied about by community leaders with an...

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Daas Torah - When Great Men are Worshipped

R' Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik, R' Aharon Kotler & Irving BunimI want to be clear from the outset so that there is no mistake about my views. I have profound respect for Gedolim.  Who those Gedolim are...

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An Ounce of Prevention

1 in 6 women in the IDF have been sexually harassed  (Jerusalem Post)One in six female soldiers in Israel are sexually harassed.  So reports the Jerusalem Post. This is an outrageous situation that...

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